Down Syndrome

Down Syndrome
Have you ever caught yourself staring at an individual you believed to be retarded or handicapped? Maybe you snickered under your breath when one of them made a funny noise that caught you off guard. I'm sure many of us have been in a situation similar to these and know the guilty feeling you get inside when you react in such a manner to their actions. I think most of our guilt comes from pity and our reactions come from the lack of knowledge on the topic.
People tend to ignore what they do not understand and I'm writing this to hopefully change how some people think. Down syndrome is a condition that can't be physically passed from one person to the next. It is a genetic condition in which there is an extra chromosome in the cells of a baby's body. This extra chromosome results most often from abnormal cell division of the egg before conception. It can also occur in the sperm before conception of a baby or in the fertilized egg after conception. A Down syndrome ch...